{"id":4507,"date":"2010-08-20T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2010-08-20T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:25:41","slug":"the-best-way-to-rob-a-bank-is-to-own-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/20\/the-best-way-to-rob-a-bank-is-to-own-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt the following needed more prominent display than in my comment on RichardH&#8217;s post <a title=\"Mel Brooks And The Bankers\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/18\/mel-brooks-and-the-bankers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mel Brooks and the bankers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes from the article mentioned in Richard&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2005, the white-collar criminologist, economist, and lawyer William Black published a book entitled \u201cThe best way to rob a bank is to own one\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Black has listed the four main characteristics of fraudulent banks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They grow very rapidly;<\/li>\n<li>They make really bad loans at high yields (because only borrowers who have no intention of paying back will borrow at exorbitant interest);<\/li>\n<li>They pile up huge debts; and<\/li>\n<li>They set aside pitifully small loss reserves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt the following needed more prominent display than in my comment on RichardH&#8217;s post Mel Brooks and the bankers. This comes from the article mentioned in Richard&#8217;s post. In 2005, the white-collar criminologist, economist, and lawyer William Black published a book entitled \u201cThe best way to rob a bank is to own one\u201d. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}